Fascinating stuff - here's a page about the Josiah Mason Orphanage, where he was buried. (And there's some pretty interesting information there about almshouses and such all over the country.

Quite a man - He began life as a street hawker of cakes, fruits and vegetables. After trying his hand in his native town at shoemaking, baking, carpentering, blacksmithing, house-painting and carpet-weaving, he moved in 1816 to Birmingham.(From here)